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Speaker 1: Jean de Nouille has lived in Watertown for thirty years,

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Speaker 1: and he's never been a fan of the overnight parking

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Speaker 1: band that stretches from late November to mid March.

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Speaker 2: I've always found the winter parking band to be an

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Speaker 2: unnecessary hardship for a lot of people who don't have

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Speaker 2: access to all street parking. People need to get to

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Speaker 2: their jobs, they have to use their cars. We don't

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Speaker 2: have good public transportation really for a lot of jobs

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Speaker 2: you have to go to at all hours.

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Speaker 1: He's been leading a campaign to end it all together,

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Speaker 1: but tonight the city council will vote on a compromise

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Speaker 1: to cut the band to January first to March first

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Speaker 1: as it conducts a parking study. Natalie says the winter

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Speaker 1: parking ban is a huge inconvenience for her.

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Speaker 3: There's one space designated for my apartment, but there's two

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Speaker 3: of us that live there, so we have two cars,

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Speaker 3: so one of us always has to find kind of

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Speaker 3: an alternate parking solution.

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Speaker 1: The parking band does have its supporters, though some residents

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Speaker 1: are concerned about crowded two way streets that don't leave

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Speaker 1: enough room for emergency vehicles or snowplows from Watertown Kyle

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